Nouhak Phoumsavanh

Nouhak Phoumsavanh (9 April 1910-9 September 2008) was President of Laos from 25 November 1992 to 25 February 1998, succeeding Kaysone Phomvihane and preceding Khamtai Siphandon.

Biography
Nouhak Phoumsavanh was born in Mukdahan Province, Siam in 1910, and he was a founding member of the Laotian revolutionary movement in 1945. He participated in the founding of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party in 1955 and served as the party's secretary in Vientiane before becoming a member of the National Assembly in 1958. He was arrested in 1959 and spent a year in prison before escaping along with Souphanouvong. During the 1960s and 1970s, he led the party in Khangkhay, and he became Deputy Prime Minister after the communist victory in the Laotian Civil War in 1975. From 1992 to 1998, he served as President of Laos, and he died in 2008 at the age of 98.